(Sanskrit: navarātri, lit. ‘nine nights’.) A festival devoted to the goddess Durga (Durgā), the Great Goddess (Mahadevī), or sometimes Ram (Rāma), lasting nine nights and ten days. The last day celebrates the deity’s victory over a demon. Also known as Dussehra or Daśahrā (Hindi), both of which mean ‘ten days’, and vijayadaśamī (Sanskrit, Hindi: the ‘tenth day, of victory’).